Ekkehard von Kuenssberg

Ekkehard von Kuenssberg CBE PRCGP FRCOG FRCP (Edin) (17 December 1913 – 27 December 2000) was a Scottish physician of German origin. A founder and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, he was the co-signatory of a letter to the British Medical Journal from GPs who had spotted early signs of the effects of thalidomide.

On the announcement of his death, Sir Donald Irvine, president of the General Medical Council, said:

The family of Künßberg (which can also be spelt Kuenssberg) is an old German family, with roots back to the mid-12th century, (mentioned as early as 1149 in several sources). Ekkehard's father was Professor Dr. Eberhard Georg Otto Freiherr von Künßberg (1881–1941), of the Thurnau line of the family; a separate and distinct line from that of Eberhard Freiherr von Kuensberg, the leader of the Sonderkommando assigned to transport Russian artifacts for the German Foreign Office during the Second World War.

Professor Dr. Eberhard von Künßberg was a scholar in the history of German Law, a professor at the University of Heidelberg, a legal linguist and a pioneer in the field of legal geography. From the death of Richard Schroeder in 1917 until von Künßberg's own death in 1941, he edited the Deutsches Rechtswoerterbuch. Künßberg married the Protestant raised Dr. Katharina Samson, the daughter of wealthy cloth manufacturer Gustav Samson, and Anna Goldschmidt, the fourth daughter of Hermann and Rosalie Goldschmidt.

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